1. Telling a single story (or series of related stories)
Narration
Telling a single story (or series of related stories)

2. WhAt’s the point of narration?
Generate audience interest
Tell about yourself (or someone else)
Freeze a particular moment, memory, story in time

3. Narration is Used in fiction Used in nonfiction Used in speeches
Used in editorials
Used in classroom lectures
Used as examples
Used in arguments

4. Narration can Show the significance of a conflict
Develop details to advance plot
Be organized in different ways:
Flashback
Flashforward
Keep point of view consistent OR switch between points of view

5. Revise the following sentence
First revise with a positive tone and then again with negative.
A bell rang. It rang loudly. Students knew the last day of class was over.

6. Still personal/expressive writing but NOT about a specific incident
Description
Still personal/expressive writing but NOT about a specific incident

7. What is description? What can be experienced by the five senses
Freezes the subject in time
Brings the reader into the world of the writer

8. Purpose and audience
The purpose of your writing and the intended audience will affect how much description is needed in your piece
Be sure to give adequate background information

9. Types of Description Objective Subjective Straightforward and literal
No attitude/feeling
Imagine what you’d see in a hard-hitting news piece
Subjective
Highly personal
Trying to elicit strong emotional responses
Reflective
Opinion pieces, blogs, etc.

10. strategies
Determine what impression you want the reader to have of your topic
Be selective of details – only include what is most important
Organize the details in a logical way

11. Revise the following
Rewrite these sentences twice. Once with an unmistakable mood (of your choice) and once with a sharply contrasting mood.
A long line formed outside the movie theater. People didn’t want to miss the show. The movie had received a lot of attention recently.

12. Practice
Choose a place in Lexington (or another town if you feel strongly about it) to describe to an unfamiliar audience. Use the five senses to come up with details to really bring the reader into the place. Write a minimum of four sentences.

13. Dialogue

14. Format
Speech in quotation marks, punctuation inside the quotation marks
When a new person is speaking, start a new paragraph
Use variations of “said”
Dialogue tags go outside the quotation marks and are separated by a comma.
If a sentence ends in an exclamation point or question mark, the dialogue tag should still be lowercase (unless, of course, there is a proper noun).
For quotes within a quote, use single quotation marks.
Example:
“Hurry!” the girl shouted as she and her friends ran toward the car. “If we don’t make it in time, the mall will be closed, and we won’t be allowed to shop!”
“Don’t worry,” her best friend called, strolling toward the car. “We have ages of time.”